Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 112
Alice could think of nothing else to say but “It belongs to the Duchess: you’d better ask _her_ about it.”
Who acts: Alice, party, you · What happens: think, say, belong, 'd, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, party, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 think | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 nothing | case |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 think | obl |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 nothing | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nothing | acl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 belongs | cc |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 belongs | punct |
| 11 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 belongs | nsubj |
| 12 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Duchess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Duchess | det |
| 15 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 belongs | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’d | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 ’d | nsubj |
| 18 | ’d | 'd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 19 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 ’d | advmod |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ’d | conj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 ask | punct |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 _ | nmod:poss |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 ask | punct |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 _ | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | could | Alice | of nothing | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | belong in a quote | present | party | to the Duchess | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | 'd in a quote | present | you | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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